Media Vent
By Bob Sacks
About Bob
Bob Sacks (aka BoSacks) is a printing/publishing industry consultant and president of The Precision Media Group (BoSacks.com). He is also the co-founder of the research company Media-Ideas (Media-Ideas.net), and publisher and editor of a daily international e-newsletter, Heard on the Web. Sacks has held posts as director of manufacturing and distribution, senior sales manager (paper), chief of operations, pressman, circulator and almost every other job this industry has to offer.
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Inching Closer to a Ubiquitous Electronic Reading Platform
What does it all mean? Are printed magazines finally capitulating and starting the voyage to a full electronic existence? No, that conclusion would be premature. There is long life yet in the printed word. But there are other things in the works that just might, in the next year or so, push publishers even further into the digital realm.
Just a few months from now the long-promised and anticipated Apple Tablet will hit the market. It will not be e-paper, but I believe that it will have a huge impact on the reading industry. The Tablet will be able to incorporate all the digital magazine formats currently in existence and tap into the digital book market as well. It will have all the bells and whistles of the iPod Touch but be large enough to offer a pleasant reading experience. And it will be instantly enriched with 250,000 Apple Apps, which is no small thing.
If that's not enough, ASUS, which created the first affordable netbooks, has announced a dual screen e-reader. The company intends to make it the world's cheapest e-book reader. This dual screen, color, touch screen puts us all one step closer to a comfortable, logical new reading platform.
We aren't there yet, but each day we inch closer and closer to the next ubiquitous electronic reading platform. There is no escaping this digital eventuality. It is my opinion that your career is contingent upon understanding these trends and developing the professional skills that will be necessary for success in the very near future.
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I am afraid the closest success story for an ebook reader will be the netbook. Phones are too small, and ebooks, ugh! Here is a fuller examination of ebooks. http://ebooktest.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/why-eink-epub-and-ebooks-will-fail/